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1861 - The Mediums' Book - discusses the experimental and investigative aspects of Spiritism, seen as a theoretical and methodological tool to understand a "new order of phenomena" that had not been considered by scientific knowledge: the so-called spiritist phenomena or mediumship, believed to be caused by the intervention of spirits in the ...
She wrote the book Forty Years a Medium (1959). The book was described in a review by journalist Tom Greenwell as non-scientific and was questioned how anyone apart from the author could take it seriously. [4] The spirit guide of Roberts known as Red Cloud made false predictions. He predicted that World War II was not going to break out and ...
The Book on Mediums or Mediums and Evokers' Handbook (a.k.a.The Mediums' Book —Le Livre des Médiums, in French), is a book by Allan Kardec published in 1861, second of the five Fundamental Works of Spiritism — the philosophy Kardec had been publishing — being the tome in which the experimental and investigative features of the doctrine were presented, explained and taught.
The Mediums' Book, or Guide for Mediums and Invokers, was published in 1861 and discusses the experimental and investigative nature of Spiritism, seen as a theoretical and methodological tool to understand a "new order of phenomena" that had never been considered by scientific knowledge: the so-called spiritist or mediumistic phenomena, which ...
Spiritualist author and medium E.W. Wallis, writing in A Guide to Mediumship and Psychic Unfoldment, expressed the opinion that the notion of spirit guides is disempowering and disrespectful to both spirits and living people. Although he does not deny that seeking people may be helped by spirits here and there, he decries the idea that said ...
A medium is said to have psychic abilities but not all psychics function as mediums. The term clairvoyance , for instance, may include seeing spirit and visions instilled by the spirit world. The Parapsychological Association defines "clairvoyance" as information derived directly from an external physical source.
Morris Lamar Keene (10 August 1936 – 11 June 1996), [1] was a spirit medium in Tampa, Florida and at Camp Chesterfield Indiana, where he was known as the "Prince of the Spiritualists". He was also the trustee of Universal Spiritualist Association. He is best known for his 1976 book The Psychic Mafia, in which he coined the term "true-believer ...
To this end, they turned to Crookes, who was a prominent and respected scientist (Noakes, 130-1). Between 1871 and 1874, Sir William Crookes investigated the preternatural phenomena produced by Spiritualist mediums. He described the conditions he imposed on mediums as follows: "It must be at my own house, and my own selection of friends and ...